Apple granted major patent for iWallet, drawings depict iPhone with NFC, transactions via iTunes billing backend
March 6, 2012 at 10:10 am
Ever since we first sampled that Starbucks app in September 2009, we could not help but wax eloquently how your iPhone will become your wallet. A deluge of ideas Apple has patented with NFC over time and some interesting hirings both hinted the company is heavy into NFC. Then, in January, 9to5Mac heard from a developer at Macworld that iPhone 5 would have NFC and that MasterCard/Paypass would launch partners for an Apple-branded payment service that would span both iOS devices and Macs. read more
